WEEK 20 - TEACHING AS INQUIRY

• Continue to work on your Literature Review
• Read through the class notes on teaching and research in New Zealand.
• Read Graeme Aitken’s background paper, The Inquiring Teacher, and watch the video presentation
• Have a look at some of the short videos that discuss various inquiry projects that teachers have been involved in
• Read the instructions (see class notes / webinars) (http://tinyurl.com/UsingBBC) on how and where to join the Webinar if you are attending

Watching the CoreEd video with Clare Amos - This further confirmed my redeveloping teaching approach. I have changed from teaching NE to Y7/8 in the past term. I like that I am able to hold far more deeper thinking conversations to support their learning. It is an exciting challenge to work on Self-Regulating their own learning - one I will embrace in 2017 with my own class

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WEEK 19 - WRITING A LITERATURE REVIEW

• Read the class notes and read/watch the required or recommended readings and videos.
• Continue to work on your literature review – Formulate and/or refine the research question, locate relevant literature, interpret and analyse the literature, synthesise the literature and develop main themes, begin writing!
• Please also register for next week's assessment 1 Webinar

WEEK 14 - LEADERSHIP - DESIGN THINKING IN LEADERSHIP

• Before: View the video 'Design Thinking as an Educator'
• In Class: Evaluate one of the elements of the TMLBU Design thinking process, record your thoughts and publish to the Google+ Community with the #designthinking and #phasename hashtags (e.g. #ideating or #testing etc.)
• In Class: Choose one of the Mindsets related to Design Thinking.View the video from http://www.designkit.org/mindsets of that mindset and write down reflections and goals about why and how you could rehearse that mindset as part of your LEADERSHIP 2 plan.
• After: Could Design Thinking help you to design your LEADERSHIP 2 Change initiative or how to lead it?

WEEK 14 - DIGITAL - DESIGN THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM

• Before: Bring 5 useless items in class, such that you would love to upcycle. We'll use those as prototyping materials.
• In Class: Complete a Design thinking challenge
• After: Consider ways in which design thinking can be used to enhance students' 'real-world problem solving' abilities.

WEEK 13 LEADERSHIP - TEACHING AS INQUIRY

• Before: Investigate the Teaching as Inquiry model you use in your school/kura
• In Class: Plan the focussing inquiry phase of a teaching as inquiry project
• In Class: Analyse assumptions and thinking underlying some sample teaching as inquiry questions
• After: Make sure to keep your 'Teaching as inquiry' plan safe, so that you can reflect and possibly build on it on the RESEARCH part of the course

WEEK 13 - DIGITAL - INQUIRY LED LEARNING

• Before: Prepare for next week's session by sharing the model you (or your school) use for Inquiry learning. Add it to the shared slides at: http://tinyurl.com/inquirymodels (as a picture, text or links)
• Before: If possible, download and install mBlock (version 3.2.2 for Windows from http://tinyurl.com/TMLmBlock or version 3.2.1 for Mac from http://tinyurl.com/TMLmBlockMac) to your laptop. Once installed please do NOT update the software to the latest version!
• In Class: Decide, as a class, what inquiry model you will adopt for this week’s activity and make it visible
• In Class: Apply the chosen inquiry model to the question "Will robots/AI reduce the need for human teachers?"
• In Class: Program a robot
• After: Revisit the shared slide deck and see if there are any useful inquiry models that would work in your context.

WEEK 12 - LEADERSHIP - INNOVATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES

• Before: Prepare for next week's session by gathering survey data about how teachers and students feel about their learning spaces. Please fill in the form and, if possible, ask your class to fill in also: http://tinyurl.com/yourlearningspaces. You may have to guide younger students, perhaps do it as a collaborative class activity?
• In Class: During the Station work / In-Class flipping choose at least one of the Leadership focused stations (1, 3 and 5)
• After: As mentioned on the Station 5, maybe your LEADERSHIP 2 assignments change initiative involves changes into the learning spaces? If so, look at the Station 5 materials in detail.